CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana outside former Attorney General and senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi's residence in Delhi. Rohatgi will be representing Asthana in the Supreme Court today.


Rohatgi brushed aside suggestions that the hearing was important. "It is just one more case. What is big about it? It is not as important as you think it is," the former Attorney General told ANI.


The Supreme Court is slated to hear today the petition filed by CBI director Alok Kumar Verma challenging the decision of the Centre to divest him of his duties and send him on leave.


He has also sought a stay of the Centre's order asking him to proceed on leave and giving the interim charge of his post to Joint Director M Nageswara Rao, a 1986 batch Odisha-cadre IPS officer. Verma's petition is listed for hearing before a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph. His petition will come for hearing along with another plea filed on Thursday by an NGO, 'Common Cause', which has sought a Special Investigation Team probe into the allegations of corruption against CBI officials including special director Rakesh Asthana.